Ippolit Giliarovsky

Ippolit Giliarovsky (18 August 1865-27 June 1905) was a frigate captain of the Imperial Russian Navy and the second-in-command of the battleship Potemkin under Captain Evgeny Golikov. His poor treatment of the sailors was one of the causes of the mutiny aboard the ship during the 1905 Russian Revolution.

Biography
Ippolit Giliarovsky was born on 18 August 1865, and he became a sailor in the Imperial Russian Navy. Giliarovsky rose to the rank of frigate captain, and he served as second-in-command aboard the battleship Potemkin under Captain Evgeny Golikov. Giliarovsky was reprimanded for his cruelty against the sailors, and he even punched a sailor in the face for not knowing his name. He served in the Russo-Japanese War with the crew of the ship, and he was decorated for bravery during the Battle of Chelmupo Bay. However, the ship's fate would take a turn for the worse when it docked at the spit of Tendra in the Black Sea. Giliarovsky forced his sailors to eat maggoty meat, and he shot Grigory Vakulinchuk when he refused to eat the meat. This caused a mutiny, and Giliarovsky was shot dead by two mutineers and then thrown overboard.